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the Katioiial Museum : For expense of heating, lighting, and telephonic 

 and electrical service for the new museum building, six thousand dollars. 

 (Sundry civil appropriation act, March 3, 1883. Statutes, xxii, p. 029.) 

 Preservation of collections. — For the preservation of collections of tho 

 i^^ational Museum : For the preservation and exhibition of the collec- 

 tions received from surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern- 

 ment, and other sources, including salaries or compensations ef all 

 necessary employes, ninety' thousand dollars. 



(Sundry civil approj^riation act, March 3, 1883. Statutes, xxii, p. 029.) 



Armory bnilding. — For the preservation of collections of the National 

 Museum in the Armory building: For care of the Armory buildings and 

 grounds, and expense of watching, preservation, and storage of the duf)!!- 

 cate collections of the Government and of property of the United States 

 Fish Commission contained therein^ including salaries or comi^ensatiou 

 of all necessary employes, two thousand five hundred dollars. And the 

 distribution of duplicate specimens of the National Museum and Msh 

 Commission may be made to colleges, academies, and other institutions 

 of learning, upon the payment by the recipients of the cost of in'epara- 

 tion for transportation and the transportation thereof. 



(Sundry civil appropriation act, March 3, 1883. Statutes, xxii, p. 029.) 



INAUGUEATION OF THE HENRY STATUE. 



[No. 16.] Joint resolution accepting the invitation of the Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institute to attend the inauguration of the statue of Joseph Henry. 



Whereas, in a communication from Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institute, Congress was informed that in accordance 

 with an act of June tirst, eighteen hundred and eighty, the bronze 

 statue of Joseph Henry, late Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 had been completed; and whereas in the same communication. Con- 

 gress was respectfully invited to be present on the occasion of its formal 

 presentation to the public upon Thursday the nineteenth of April next, 

 Therefore be it 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress asstmhkd, That the said invitation be 

 and the same is hereby accepted by the Senate and House of Kepre- 

 sentatives; and that the President of the Senate select seven members 

 of that body ; and the Speaker of the House of Kepresentatives fifteen 

 members of that body to be present and represent the Congress of the 

 United States, upon the occasion of the presentation and inauguration 

 of said statue. 



(Approved February 24, 1883. Statutes, xxii, p. 039.) 



